diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 13b93234..9da231a4 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.12)
 if(CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR STREQUAL CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR)
   project(
     LCI
-    VERSION 1.7.7
+    VERSION 1.7.8
     DESCRIPTION "Lightweight Communication Interface"
     HOMEPAGE_URL "https://github.com/uiuc-hpc/lci")
   enable_testing()
diff --git a/doc/changelog_1_7_8.md b/doc/changelog_1_7_8.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3dda4de1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/changelog_1_7_8.md
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# Change log for LCI v1.7.8
+
+## Major Changes
+- Upstream LCI spack package to the spack repo.
+- Add RoCE support
+  - including the GID auto selection feature.
+- Improve multi-device support
+  - use shared low-level data structures.
+  - use shared heap and package pools for devices
+- Fix messages of size larger than int_max.
+  - LCI will break the message into multiple chunks and send them with RDMA write.
+
+## Breaking Changes
+- Change the github repo name from uiuc-hpc/LC to uiuc-hpc/lci
+- Remove the LCI::Shared cmake target
+
+## Other Changes
+- improve spack package.py: use spec.satisfies instead of spec.value
+- fix(ofi): pass LCI_SERVER_MAX_SENDS/RECVS to libfabric endpoints
+- add three performance counters: net_poll_cq_num, sync_stay_timer, cq_stay_timer
+- refactor backend: LCI device as LCIS endpoint
+- force ofi cxi to disable LCI_ENABLE_PRG_NET_ENDPOINT
+- initialize allocated packets with LCII_POOLID_LOCAL
+- add net_cq_poll related counters to measure the thread contention in progress engine
+- fix(lct/pcounter): exit recording thread if not needed
+- ibv backend: adjust max_send, max_recv, max_cqe according to device_attr
+- improve LCIConfig.cmake.in: PACKAGE_CMAKE_INSTALL_XXX can be changed by find_dependency